NEW YORK (AP) — A newly released Islamic State group video that briefly depicts images of Times Square is an advertisement for the terrorist organization meant to market fear, city officials said Thursday.
Police officials said the video released Wednesday uses old footage of busy Manhattan streets to threaten an attack in what New York City's mayor called "an attempt at intimidation."
Despite recent reports that the Catholic Church plans to canonize Mother Teresa of Kolkata next September, the Vatican on Wednesday denied that it has set a date to officially name the missionary as saint.
Earlier in the week, the Italian news agency AGI and L'Avvenire, the Italian bishops conference newspaper, sparked a flurry of Internet speculation by reporting that Mother Teresa, who founded the Missionaries of Charity and devoted her life to helping the poor in India's slums, could be canonized in September. Sept. 5, 2016, marks the 19th anniversary of her death.
